Seagulls in the KInsale Cove

Description

When my son and I arrived in Ireland in June of 2021, we had mandatory Hotel Quarantine for 12 days at Croke Park Hotel in Dublin. While the sound of doves reminds me of the Drakensburg, the sound of seagulls reminds me of Dublin, and the Seagulls of the beautiful Mariners Wharf in Hout Bay, Cape Town where I lived while studying at The University of Cape Town. These birds have linked my previous home of South Africa and our current home of Ireland.

We live just 20 minutes from the beautiful harbour town of Kinsale, on the Wild Atlantic Way Coastal Route. I painted “Seagulls in the Kinsale Cove” and “Catch of the Day Kinsale Seagulls” to honour these memories, and how the beauty where we find these birds, echos and sound of home, then and now.

500 x4500 x 20

Oil on stretched canvas